Saint Lazare in Paris

Saint-Lazare is one of the six large terminus railway stations of Paris. It is the second busiest railway station in Europe with 100,000,000 passengers transiting every year, and also the second largest station in Paris, behind the Gare du Nord. It handles 450,000 passengers each day. In 1877 Claude Monet rented a studio near Gare Saint Lazare. That same year he exhibited seven paintings of the railway station in an impressionist painting exhibition. He completed 11 paintings of this subject.